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[What If?] Would a Submarine Work as a Spaceship? (www.youtube.com)

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[–] PrinceWith999Enemies 36 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I feel like the battleship Yamato in the documentary Star Blazers has already demonstrated that it is completely viable to launch a naval vessel into orbit and have it perform with excellence.

Just as a note, though - nukes in space work completely differently than nukes in the atmosphere.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nukes in space are basically contact weapons. Wave motion guns are far more effective

[–] LazaroFilm 3 points 11 months ago

They mention that in Red Rising (or one of the following books)

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